Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Manager IC)

Responsibilities

• The MLE role overlaps with many disciplines, such as Ops, Modeling, and Data Engineering. In this role, you'll be expected to perform many ML engineering activities, including one or more of the following:
• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and provide value to our customers.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components utilizing machine learning models, including model evaluation and experimentation, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, governance, observability and agentic AI.
• Fine-tune, develop and evaluate machine learning and foundation models,
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that utilizes state-of-the-art AI and ML capabilities
• Contribute thought leadership and technical vision to the long term roadmap of pioneering AI systems at Capital One.
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
• Inform your ML infrastructure decisions using your understanding of ML modeling techniques and issues.
• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
• Construct optimized data pipelines to feed ML models.
• Ensure all code is well-managed to reduce vulnerabilities, models are well-governed from a risk perspective, and the ML follows best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI.
• The Ideal Candidate:
• You love to build systems, take pride in the quality of your work, and also share our passion to do the right thing. You want to work on problems that will help change banking for good.
• You are a passionate communicator, comfortable with explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical partners across the business, sometimes in front of large audiences.
• Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand scientific publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.
• You adapt quickly and thrive on bringing clarity to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and digging deep to uncover the root of problems and can articulate your findings concisely with clarity. You have the courage to share new ideas even when they are unproven.
• You are deeply Technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI enable you to see and exploit optimization opportunities that others miss.
• You are a resilient trail blazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown.
• Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously applying novel techniques in production
• Strategic & Business-Oriented: think beyond the technology, deeply understanding business needs and how AI can solve them. You don't just build; you strategize and prioritize work that delivers the greatest business value.
• Technically Mature & Humble: You possess a strong foundation in engineering a

Additional Information

Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Manager IC) At Capital One, we are changing banking for good by creating responsible and reliable AI-powered systems. Our investments in technology infrastructure and world-class talent along with our deep experience in machine learning position us to be at the forefront of enterprises leveraging AI. From informing customers about unusual charges to answering their questions in real time, our applications of AI & ML are bringing humanity and simplicity to banking. We are committed to continuing to build world-class applied science and engineering teams to deliver our industry leading capabilities with breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure. At Capital One, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine exceptional products for our customers. In Risk Tech, we provide the foundation for Capital One to thrive in an uncertain world. Our engaged, empowered, and intelligent people produce outstanding products, working toward the common goal of transforming risk management with technology. We build data-driven tools that use machine learning to prevent risks & automatically detect issues before they impact our customers, our business, or our communities. In this role at Risk Tech, you will work with our GRC team and partners across the company to build and deploy proprietary solutions for Risk management that are powered by state-of-the-art AI technology. Our products, enhanced with the transformative power of AI, are central to our business and deliver tremendous customer value.

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